Hearts, Stars, Sun, and Wind
Recently i was always the one who goes crying to them, saying that i miss them so much and it is hard to be on my own, in a land that is not so familiar to me, with a very limited language abilitu and so faraway from them.
I wasnt seeing the big picture that despite their ENORMOUS effort on encouraging me to be brave and to not give up, they also have their own problems.
In my attempt to support them, i wrote a poem and i share it to them...
i wrote this part:
"Ku kirim seribu hati dari seberang samudera, biar hangatnya memeluk kalian tanpa henti.
i sent a thousand hearts from across the ocean, let their warmth hugs you all always
Ku kirim seribu bintang dari tempat ini, biar cahayanya melindungi kalian.
i sent a thousand stars from my place, let their lights protect you
Lalu saat kita jauh, saat kita lelah, biarkan hati dan bintang mengingatkan apa yang telah kita lalui bersama.
then, in times when we're apart, when we're tired,
let the hearts and the stars remind us of what we've been through together
dan semoga kenangan itu mengangkat kalian, membuat kalian bertahan, mendorong kalian maju.
and i wish, only wish those memories will lift you up, let you hold your ground, encourage you to step forward."
and soon after, to MY SURPRISE, one of them replied and wrote like this:
"Aku kirim matahari, supaya dapat memberikanmu senyuman seperti kenangan-kenangan yang pernah kita lakukan bersama,
i sent you the sun, so it will give you smiles just like the memories of us makes you smile..
menyinarimu, dan menemanimu di kala kamu beraktivitas dengan hari-harimu.
so it will shine upon you, be with you through your days..
Dan ketika matahari yang ku kirim terbenam pada waktunya, jangan khawatir,
and when it's time for the sun to set down, dont you worry...
keesokan harinya matahari itu pasti kembali lagi dan menemanimu,
tomorrow it will be back, and once again goes with you
lagi dan lagi,
and it will goes again, and again, and again
sampai kita bertemu lagi.
untill it's time to for us to see each other again."
and the other one replied this way:
"Dan aku tiup angin yang membawa doa untuk kita masing-masing,
"And I will blow the wind, the wind that bring prayers for us,
meski tak terlihat,
eventough it is unseen
ku berharap hembusan kesegarannya selalu terasa,
i wish you will feel it
Dikala ceria....
when you are happy and blissful
ataupun penat
or when it is hard and tiring...
see...? This is sooo their style. They replied to me and supported me with their simple words, when actually i was the one who wanted to support them. With these girls, i know i will be allright. It really, really doesnt matter even when we are miles and miles and miles apart. I never felt that they are away. It's like they are here with me, and i, for a tenth thousand times, i feel i am the luckiest person alive, because i have them and nothing gonna change that for like forever.
Welcoming Aki
Good evening everyone.. :3
I have been SO BUSY more than a queen bee here in Japan. It's like there will always something i have to do here untill i cant even touch Maximus (my lappy), Cherry (the PSP) or even comic books. Like on Thursday there was a Matsuri (festival) here in Chiba, but untill now i didnt really get the name of the festival. But since it was in the beginning of September, i guess it has to do with welcoming the Aki (autumn) season.
Aki supposed to be beautiful and cool and mild with yellowish leaves falling here and there.. but this stupid global warming makes Aki in Japan feels like you're in the middle of summer. Saitama district could have like 32 celcius degree! It's even HOTTER than Jakarta. -______-
Talking about the autumn, this Matsuri (festival) i was talking about was held not very far from the dorm. They had a Jinja (temple), it looks like this:
i know it's not really a clear picture, it is kinda hard to take the picture when there are A LOT of people there and considering they actually came here to pray, i presume it's kind of rude if i insisted to try to get a good picture. :D well at least you get the idea of how the temple looks like.. :D
in this kind of festival, girls usually wear a Yukata, the traditional, uh, pajamas to go to a festival. it's quite thin but very long and has this Obi to tie the yukata. there are a lot of colors and motives but usually they are matched with what season you were in and of what occasion you're going to attend. The boys could use a Jinbe, another, i'm really not sure of
this but i do remember Okaasan (the mother in the dorm) told us that they called casual pajamas. I got a beautiful picture down here for you guys..
That isMarina in her blue yukata, a super funny and crazy girl from Spain. I made a really good friends with her and she is very fun to be with. Next to her is me in pink (yaaaay!!) (i know i look so SMALL almost like a kid,so dont say anything about that xD), it's Akira senpai next to me, he is wearing the Jinbe. He is a purely and originally made in Japan, but when everyone at first arrived at the dorm, no one believes that. everyone keep telling him that he came from Phillipines or somewhere else and it was kinda amusing seeing him was always like "whaaat? no way, I'm a Japanese!" :D and next to her is another crazy head girl in the dorm, Rini. We got so close by this time, thanks God. ^^
In the festival people carrying the small temple on their shoulders and we all follow from behind. what i really love about this festival is there a lot of lampions and they shine very very very beautifully. speaking about shining, when we get out of our dorm's door, the full moon shines so brightly in the sky, it was very low, i almost thought i could touch it.. it was really one nice beautiful night to go out in a festival.
At the festival there were A LOT of food. Takoyaki, Okonomiyaki, Yakisoba, Yakitori, you name it. they also sell this sweet apple, i think it's covered with honey, and a
chocolate or strawberry covered bananas with colorful sprinkles, and so many other food. It was really fun to walk with the girls in the dorm and i
was really really really happy.
This is another picture we took at the dorm before we went out and had fun with the festival:
umm... the girl in the soft blue yukata is called Kaori, she is from Vuetnam, next to her is Ranchi.. she also came from Vietnam. The kind faced guy with glasses is my Otousan (father of the dorm) and he is, clearly, married to Okaasan. Next to her is me and next to me is Rini. Marina is the beautiful one in blue..
The guy standing behind Kaori, he was the one with plaid shirt is Leandro, he came from Brazil. He was really nice to me and we had fun here in the dorm. Next to him is Estela, she is one of the marvelous Brazilian girl that went to the same class with me and i spent a lot of time with her and Nayara. I really love them both! :D Next to her is Jenn, another Indonesian student, but she wasnt staying with us at the dorm.. and the girl next to her is Kei, she came from Taiwan and her Japanese is really really really good!! :D :D
We had a really good time and finally go home, considering it was still a school night and we really had a lot of homeworks (why oh whhhyyyy?? It is week 1!! -______-) so we snapped some pictures and finally went home. I was quite tired but very ver
y happy. That was one magnificent first Matsuri and i only wishe
d i had everyone i love to witness the Matsuri together. :)
I'll try my best to write more and more.
Good night folks.. Kisses from the stars.
Learn Harder, Work Harder, Play the Hardest!
guys i'm officially blogging from Japan, from my very own dorm. *clapping hands*
okay then, first, i dont really have SO MUCH time right now to surfing the internet, playing facebook, writing emails, blogging or updating twitter. They make us so very busy with almost EVERYTHING and by the time we had a chance like an hour or so to get online, most likely we are all so worn out, and sometime i feel that it is so cruel because I NEED to contact like everyone important in my life and i just cant do that.
my okaasan ("mother" of the dorm) is very strict with rules and she got like ten thousand rules. everything is ruled, some of them are really annoying. for example, i have to separate trashes in 4 groups!
1. the ones you could burn : paper, tissue, paper cup, food leftovers blah blah blah
2. the ones you shouldnt and actually couldnt burn: hairdryer (seriously), electronic cables blah blah blah
3. the ones you could recycle : boxes, like for milk, juice etc. you have to literally open them, so they dont look like boxes anymore but you have keep them whole, safe and unharmed. geez. everything in Japan is complicated in my eyes.
4. pet bottle, you have to separate the cap in another bin, and then press the bottle untill it;s very thin before you throw it to the bin. see? see why i said everything is complicated?
i was: WHAAAAATTT?? Now it took me like 5 minutes to throw thrashes, to figure out where they belong and to figure out the writings in each bin. geeee.. -________-"
people who doesnt really used to rules, people like those who came from Indonesia, people like me had a hard time to adjust to this. I considered myself pretty law-abiding, and respect nature, for example like i've been always try to throw thrashes at trash bin but..........................................
Singapore is no match for Japan in rules department, seriously. Japan is a country of rules. too much rules.
okaasan spent literally 9 HOURS to explain dorm rules. For Albus Dumbledore's sake! it started 9 am today and ended 6 pm!! oh. my. beard. *i dont have beard, of course. (laughing)*
in my second day, August 31st, they ask us to come to the university (which was AMAAAZING.) and we had to bring our passport. Okaasan has been telling us repeatedly to bring our passport and then morning comes and we go together to our uni....................................
i FORGOT to bring my passport. what...the........ how could I remember to bring my PSP but forget to bring the only one identification means i have...????
That is SO me. bring all other UNIMPORTANT but necessary items and leave the IMPORTANT and necessary ones. I mean, hello, i'm a foreigner. how could i left my passport home...? so i ran back to dorm and take it and feel so... ridiculous.
but my uni was really sugoi (cool)!! super super uber cool! they have a gym, free for student (imagining Aloince's face when she heard this), three cafetarias, media center (which looks realllyyyy cool. they have all these computers, imac, laptops with headphones and everything.) then there ae speaking rooms, rooms designated specially for using skype, YM! and etc, they also have library that is VERY big and COMFORTABLE, and they have gardens where students could eat.
my uni also have a cultural center, which is beyond my imagination. they have one floor assigned for student to learn the diversity in the world and witness each countries' culture. they have a miniature of houses (Indonesia took Bali's) which you can really enter, and there are chairs and tables where you can read, chat with a native and learn anything you want about the country. they have collection of books in each of the country's native language! i've seen Harry Potter's collection in various languages now. that is totally cool..!! they also have custom clothes and you can actually try it on, but the uni was actually in summer holiday so we can only look and weep. ahahahaa.. i'll try to update some pictures soon so you guys could see it. but really, you should see it with your own eyes. because it's really really cool!
They also have a very unique way to buy food in the cafeteria. all you have to do is to enter money into a vending machine, and then you have to choose by pressing buttons with food names and prices there. after that the machine will give you a paper with the name of the food you choose. if it was like 350 yen and you pay with 500 yen, the machine will give you your change. After this you go to the seller in the back of the cafe and you gave him the paper and then..... ta daaaa..! your food is done! hurraaay!
you could have tap water for free (but it tasted a bit funny there.. at my dorm it's delicious) and if you prefer to but bottled drink you have soo many choices in the vending machine.
so i guess if you are a law abiding citizen, clean and neat, and you speak Japanese well then life is great here. everything is interesting. but since i dont speak Japanese THAT well, it is kinda hard to live here. I spent like 5 minutes to buy a bread, just because i need longer times to read what bread is it i actually holding. and it goes for jam and rice and chocolate and snacks and sausages, and beef and on and on and on......
that is the hard part. here comes the hardest: I MISS INDONESIA. i miss my family, my mum, my brothers,my dog. I miss Aloince, Rinane, Dee, Bumbi, Veli and Dhani so bad. I miss Jude and Hoseki. i miss them. everyday when night comes i would stand in my room and look around and feel so horrible. i feel so alone. when i open my eyes in the morning, i will wish that i was back in Jakarta.....
i know that i should stop doing this, feeling lonely and all. i need to stop calling this place "dorm". it is "home"now. i have to start considering people here are all my family, my brothers and sisters, my father and mother..... but it comes very hard in the morning... really. sometime i just want to lay in bed and hoping that when i open my eyes, i am not here. because here, i sounded like a dumb fool idiot child who cant do anything without help and when i do ask for help, i cant make people understand what i'm saying. and because i dont understand either what they are saying, i guess they start to stop talking to me, which is totally sad because i dont mind just listening to them. i believe that someday i will understand what they're saying. i wish people dont top talking, i wish they knew that even if i dont understand a single word they say, i do want to learn.
other than that, everything is really amazing and interesting. i find new things everyday, and i learn so many new words everyday, and i see different cultures and people and habits and languages and point of view and i am happy. i want to study even harder so that i would finally understand what people are saying and i could engage in the conversation with them and be myself here.
wish me luck!
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